docs: def _get_conference_id(self, conference):
          """
          Get the conference abbreviation, such as 'big-12'.
  
          The conference abbreviation is embedded within the Conference Name
          tag and requires special parsing to extract. The abbreviation is
          returned as a string.
  
          Parameters
          ----------
          conference : PyQuery object
              A PyQuery object representing a single row in the conference table
              which can be used to find the conference abbreviation.
  
          Returns
          -------
          string
              Returns a string of the conference abbreviation, such as 'big-12'.
          """
          name_tag = conference('td[data-stat="conf_name"] a')
          conference_id = re.sub(r'.*/cfb/conferences/', '', str(name_tag))
          conference_id = re.sub(r'/.*', '', conference_id)
          return conference_id